Combined robe and whip lock.



N. G. BALLARD.

COMBINED ROBE AND WHIP LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.12. 1915.

13. ,1 @1 58%. Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOCIRAPH co., WASHINGTON u. c.

NICHOLAS G.'BALLARD, OF CHICAGO, KENTUCKY.

COMBINED ROBE AND WHIP LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed August 12, 1915. Serial No. 45,153.

b all whom it may concern s 1 Be it known that I, NIoHoLas BALLARD, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Chicago, in the county of Marionand State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gombined Robe and Whip Locks, of which the 'following'is a specification. V r

This invention relates to vehicle attachments, and in its more intense aspect to a device adapted to be attached to a vehicle for preventing operation or removal of certain controlling mechanisms and accessories of the vehicle. V

V The present invention will therefore be hereinafter described with its relation and operation to a combined whip and robe lock.

parts, which will be cheap to manufacture and install. I

Another object is to provide a device of the last-above mentioned character which will be reliable and eflicient in use and operation.

Other objects will be in part obvious from the annexed drawing and in part indicated in connection therewith by the following analysis of this invention.

This invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of parts and in the unique relations of the members and in the relative proportioning and disposition thereof, all as more completely outlined herein.

To enable others skilled in the art so fully to comprehend the underlying features thereof that they may embody the same by the numerous modifications in structure and relation contemplated by this invention, a drawing depicting a preferred form has been annexed as a part of this disclosure, and in such drawing, like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout all the views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete device in operative position applied to the dash-board of a vehicle and showing the manner of locking the whip in a whipsocket and the robe adjacent thereto. Fig. 2 is a. plan view of a part of the device.

Referring now to the drawing in detail and more particularly to Fig. 1, 5 denotes the dash-board of an ordinary road vehicle supplied with a whip socket 6 along one edge thereof, both of well-known construction. Immediately above the whip-socket is attached a bracket member by means of a through bolts adapted to support the whip and robe locking mechanism.

bracket 7 has rigidly secured thereto a rela tively heavy ring 10 provided with a through opening of a size to permit the in sertlon of the butt of the whip into the socket. Pivoted to this ring at the point 11,

,6 O This is a swinging arm12 provided with an elongated hook member 13, and an opening 14-, which may be swung about the pivot 11, into the "position shown in Fig. 1, thereby to clamp the smaller portion of the whip. above a the butt securely in place. Positively secured to this ring member 10, as by means of bolt 15, is a lock mechanism16, preferably of pad-lock form, and provided with a bow or hasp 17 adapted to coact with either the elongated arm 13 or the lock opening 14. Directly coacting with this elongated arm and the hasp of the lock is an associated robe-locking mechanism, comprising two U- shaped members 20 and 21 pivotally connected at adjacent ends 22. The member 20 is provided with a transverse brace 23 to which one end of a chain 24 is pivotally secured. Thischain 24 is preferably composed of a pluralityv of diamond-shaped or triangular links, as will be hereinafter more fully explained. The member 21 is also provided with a transverse brace 25 over which the chain is adapted to be passed prior to being locked. The ends of this brace 25 preferably project downwardly to form teeth 26, adapted to bite into the robe sufficiently to hold the same against longitudinal or endwise movement when the jaws or U- shaped members 21, 22 are moved toward each other.

The device may be used and operated. substantially as follows: Assuming the whip to be in the socket the robe or other article to be secured by the attachment is rolled or folded in part and passed between the pivoted members 20 and '21 which are then drawn together until the teeth 26 stick into the robe a sufficient distance to prevent its removal. The chain 241: passing over the transverse brace 25 is then led downwardly and one of the triangular links placed over the projecting end 27 of the member 20, thus holding the parts in proper and closed position. The peculiar shape of these triangular links will positively prevent any projecting end 27 in a manner adapted to prevent removal of the coacting link of the chain away} therefrom, thus positivelyholding the parts inproper position. A single lock isadapted to perform the two functions of, holding the parts in proper position, and by'having the lock positively mounted upon "the bracketmember it cannot be turned or V removed to allow anyiof the partsto have sufficient slack or looseness to permit a removal of the whipjor robe." If the whip is of a small size thejliasp'of the lock may be passed over the'arm 13 insteadof through the lock hole li, thus giving the device a certain amount of adjustability to-meet the desired ends. 1 i j The present invention is believed to constitute a simple, practical self-contained mechanism adapted to accomplish among otliers all of the objects and advantages "above set forth.

I Without further analysis, the foregoing Will so fully reveal the gist of this invention that others canbyf applying current knowltherefore such adaptations should and are intended to be comprehendedwithin the meaning and range of equivalency of the following claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In an attachment for vehicles, in combination, a locking member. mounted adjacent a whip socket and adapted to coact in looking awhip in place therein, a lock coacting with said locking member, and a robe gripping device comprising a pair of pivotally mounted jaws having looped ends, and means fitting over said looped ends for adjustably holding said jaws in closed position and adapted to be held in place by said lock.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' NICHOLAS G. BALLAR-D. \Vitnesses FRANK DANT, S. B. BOTTOM.

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